Trundle toy



Patented Aug. 17, 1926.

TES

PATIENT OFFICE.

TRUNDLE TOY Application filed. August '29, 1925. Serial No. 53,298.

The present invention relates to improvements in toy vehicles and its principal ob ject is to provide a vehicle extremely simple of construction that effectively simulates in appearance a locomotive and in which by a simplemechanism the motion of the draw bars and the connecting rod characteristic of the locomotive is reproduced. In this connection it is proposed to shape and print a simple board, standing on edge, to simulate a locomotive in side elevation, to support the front end of the board on a wheel, to provide a sliding bar along the side of the board and to cause the wheel to reciprocate the sliding bar when the whole device is advanced by means of a handle disposed at the rear end of the board.

Further objects and advantages of my invention will appear as the specification proceeds.

The preferred form of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 shows a vice.

Figure 2 is a vertical section taken along line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a vertical section taken along line 3-3 of Figure '1.

Figure 4 is an enlarged fragmentary detail view in side elevation of the device as viewed from'point 4 in Fig. 3. 7

While I have shown only the preferred form of the invention, I wish to have it understood that various changes or modifications may be made within the scope of the claims hereto attached without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Referring to the drawing in detail:

A plate or board 1, is shaped and preferably painted to simulate in side elevation a locomotive, presenting the characttristicfeatures of the same, such as the boiler barrel 2, the engineers room 4, the smoke box 6, the smoke stack 7, the bell 8, the dome 9, the headlight 11, the pilot or cow-catcher 12, the engine 13, and the wheels 14. The front 1 end of the board is preferably recessed as shown at 16 so as to allow the board to straddle a wheel 1'7 on the axle 18 of which the front end of the board is supported. From the rear end of the board extends a handle 19, and the board, wheel and handle are side elevation of my dedimensioned to allow a boy-of appropriate age to push the toy ahead of him by operating the handle while the wheel engages with the surface of the pavement.

Alongside of the board, preferably on each side thereof, is supported a sliding bar 21, the two bars resting on pins 22, riding in a horizontal slot 23 in the board. These bars are arranged relative to the inactive wheels 14 shaped or painted on the board to simulate the drawbars of the locomotive, that is, comparatively near the hubs or axles of the said wheels, tive front wheel 17 has a crank 24 at each end and the ends of these cranks are connected to the front end of thesliding bars 21 by means of connecting rods 26 whereby reciprocating motion is imparted to the slide bars 21 when the Wheel 17 revolves. The top faces of the slide bars 21 may be made corrugated as shown at 27 and a spring 28 be arranged to cause its free end to ride on the slide bars to produce a rattling sound while the said bars reciprocate.

It will be seen that in this manner a realistic reproduction of a locomotive is obtained by a very simple mechanical contrivance and at the same time a toy produced that gives The axle 18of the ac- Y ample opportunity for healthy exercise and thereof in simulation of locomotive wheels,

a horizontal bar slidable along said plate in the vicinity of the wheel hubs, an active wheel supporting the front end of the plate, an operating handle extending from the rear end of the plate allowing a child to advance the wheel on the road by pushing on the handle and an operative connection between the wheel and the bar causing the lat ter to be reciprocated in simulation of the reciprocating motion of the draw bar of a locomotive when the wheel revolves.

2. A toy comprising a vertical plate made to simulate in side elevation a locomotive and presenting inactive wheels on the sides thereof in simulation of locomotive wheels, a horizontal bar slidable along said plate Wheel supporting the front end of the plate, other end pivoted to the bar for reciprocatan operating handle extending from the rear ing the latter in simulation of the draw bar end of the plate allowing a child to advance of a locomotive when the wheel revolves. 10 the Wheel on the road by, pushing on the In testimony whereof Ieffix my signahandle and e connecting rod having" one ture. I

end pivoted relative to the Wheel at gt distanee from the center thereof and having its \VALTER C. MGLAREN. 

